- For those having the problem booting to a blank screen, see rufwoof's posts Here and Here (also about using TV-monitor)_________________Dog Linux websiteLast edited by fredx181 on Mon 29 May 2017, 12:37; edited 12 times in total

Wow, you are getting to be a 'master' of these debian dogs. Will download tonight and get it set up tomorrow.......I must admit I'm kind of hesitant, though. I do not want to like it more than my DD32 Thanks, Fred! Everyone should try these DDs of yours, both 32 & 64..

[Correction: just your comment below, Fred, then re-read the description closely..It's Ubuntu-mini, and here I was thinking it was DD64. Sorry about that. Will still give it a try]Last edited by belham2 on Wed 18 Jan 2017, 18:24; edited 1 time in total

Will download tonight and get it set up tomorrow.......I must admit I'm kind of hesitant, though. I do not want to like it more than my DD32 Wink Thanks, Fred! Everyone should try these DDs of yours, both 32 & 64..

Thanks Belham and you're welcome!
It's very different from DD32, no xfce desktop, very similar to the earlier 32-bit Xenialdog (Openbox, tint2 and choice to use cairo-dock)

Forgot to include the very important utility 'create savefile'
Will re-upload ISO within half an hour.

Fred

Are you kidding?! I stayed up (it's nearing 1:00am) just to play with this, have been setting things up inside it for the past hour, and now you're telling me there's no way to save all my work/settings on exit (I booted Porteus Save)? Fred, Fred, FRED..FREDDDDIE MERCURY!!!!!!!!!

Lol, oh well, serves me right for staying up so late. I should have just went to bed. Below is the pic I took. It booted well (I did porteus save on exit). Of the few things I did get to try, when I took this pic, I must note that in right-clicking to "Open With..." and choose 'mtpaint', the dialog box brought back after clicking "Open With..." was blank, and said that no programs at all are installed in the OS. What?? Thus I couldn't choose anything and had to open mtpaint by its own icon, then head to the pic in ~root.

Anyway, will kiss this setup that I worked soooooooooo hard on, just kiss it all goodbye and try again tomorrow evening with the new ISO download. No worries, Fred, we all make mistakes.....but forgetting the doggone SAVEFILE utility...lol.....you're killing me here

Fred, it (the porteus boot save on exit) sure acted like it saved to the external USB hard drive? Did it? It looked like 20MB got saved, which is about right. Too bleary-eyed right now, will fire it all back up tomorrow and check. Am hoping that since I used porteus boot save on exit that it is separate from the savefile utility

My apologies , the only (yes, very, very weak ) excuse I have is that I never use save file (always folder or remaster).

Re-uploaded ISO, see edit in my previous post.

Have fun!

Edit:

belham2 wrote:

Fred, it (the porteus boot save on exit) sure acted like it saved to the external USB hard drive? Did it? It looked like 20MB got saved, which is about right. Too bleary-eyed right now, will fire it all back up tomorrow and check. Am hoping that since I used porteus boot save on exit that it is separate from the savefile utility Wink

Maybe you used save to folder, no save-filecreation utility is required for that to work well.

Quote:

I must note that in right-clicking to "Open With..." and choose 'mtpaint', the dialog box brought back after clicking "Open With..." was blank, and said that no programs at all are installed in the OS. What?? Thus I couldn't choose anything and had to open mtpaint by its own icon, then head to the pic in ~root.

Yes I noticed that (nothing to choose from applications) , don't know yet how to solve that, you can type a command though to open with (and set as default) from the tab 'Custom command line'

Edit2:
Ah, well the fix is very simple, move lxde-applications.menu to /etc/xdg/menus (for some experiment I took it out and placed in /etc/xdg), so from terminal:

And that includes me, Fred! (I'm just popping in cos saw your long-awaited XenialDog 64bit release announcement. I like Ubuntu-system because I find that many apps my family use are more readily immediately available in binaries for Ubuntu systems than for other Linux's.

Some AV apps prefer expect pulse-audio, so I prefer to include that (and I tend to find apulse solutions problematic/unstable). So would be good if you could add a quick note to remind me the best way to add pulseaudio so it is there on boot.

Glad you are keeping up the good work and have a number of new users keeping an active interest in the project(s).

Some AV apps prefer expect pulse-audio, so I prefer to include that (and I tend to find apulse solutions problematic/unstable). So would be good if you could add a quick note to remind me the best way to add pulseaudio so it is there on boot.

As zagreb wrote, "pulseaudio --start" is the way to go, you can add simple shell script in ~/Startup
(but to install kde-baseapps seems useless to me, it will install a lot of packages not related to pulseaudio )
Another way (autostart for all users):
Install also obsession (it will make *.desktop files work in /etc/xdg/autostart):

Code:

apt-get install pulseaudio obsession

(you might want to take a look at the 'suggested packages' e.g. install pavucontrol or more)
Then edit /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop and change the 'Exec=...' line to:

Code:

Exec=pulseaudio --start

Alsamixer using pulse:

Code:

alsamixer -D pulse

To make pulseaudio start at boot using a systemd service didn't work for me (tried several possible solutions from the web)

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